What is writing without a handy-dandy laptop?

Painful. It’s absolutely painful. For me, anyway. Writing by hand is a no-go if it’s for more than a paragraph or two.

I started using Scrivener a few years ago, and I’ve never looked back. It’s such a helpful program designed to organize thoughts into a usable manuscript.

I stumbled upon Plottr about a year ago but never invested in it—until now. It is, by far, one of the easiest-to-use plotting programs I’ve ever used. It keeps track of plot, characters, places, and even tags! 

Aeon Timeline 3 is a timeline-making program that is worth the money. It keeps track of, well, timelines along with characters and relationships between characters and places. It even organizes by story arc!

Atticus is a wonderful, user-friendly program used for formatting books. I’ve used it to format my—and an author friend’s—books, 8 in total. It’s a one-time purchase that has come in handy many, many times.

THIS! This is one of my favorite programs ever. I used to use Evernote to organize thoughts and write snippets on-the-go, but Notion blows Evernote out of the water. It even allows me to make wikis for my characters and worlds!